Weird, I guess I never officially explained my username here. This username is a holdover from my Lego.com days, an account of which I still use and is so old it couldn’t apply for Lego ShopatHome VIP program.
Back in ye olden days, while my father always had his own computer, the rest of us would have to share a singular desktop PC. I would take turns with my three other siblings, but my brother and I used it the most. Didn’t have any consoles yet, except maybe a Nintendo handled, so website games were our main video game entertainment. As such, we spent a lot of time as sites like NeoPets, Hot Wheels, and Lego to play all their games.
Eventually, we got tired of losing our high scores or wanted saved progress and wanted an account on Lego.com. We tried individual accounts, I think my account name attempts then involved frogs/frogger/legofrog, something like that, but we kept forgetting either our usernames and/or passwords. So to make it easy, my brother and I would create one shared account. That way, with out memory powers combined, we could remember the username/password and eliminate the need to constantly swap accounts when playing.
Thus the name ajtazt came to be. It’s an acronym, with the initials for my younger brother first (AJT) and my initials second (AZT). If you ever wonder why I might occasionally introduce myself as the AZT of ajtazt, that’s why. We where a duo…but AJT ended up mostly abandoning the account (we have different tales as to why), but it was around the time Lego Universe ended.
AJT would use the account on occasion to enter in official Lego contests, but his last one was for the double-decker contest for The LEGO Movie in 2014. All his other postings were sparse otherwise and became reluctant to share his creations online. I continued to share, participate in fan contests, and eventually found my way onto the Lego Message Boards in 2010. Of which only two of all the posts made on the LMBs weren’t mine and belonged to my brother, chatting about the Lego City comic maker.
So despite AJT’s lesser use of it, I later felt the unnecessary need to clarify that I, the AZT portion, was the main one everyone knew. And when moving around to different sites, as it was clear that Lego was pulling the plug on their main website, plus the main Bionicle RP group moving to form its own site, I eventually created an account here. I could have went with a new name, as I had done on Wikia, Slack, Discord, the new RP site, etc., which was taking the then name of my Self-MOC, The Lego Roleplayer, but I didn’t when joining here. Primarily due to the number of other LMB users coming here, and the General Gallery still being up, it made more sense to keep the “ajtazt” name. It was more recognizable to those outside the close friend group and less chance of people claiming I stole my own MOCs when reposting them here.
Oh and if you’re wondering how to pronounce it, you say each letter individually. A-J-T-A-Z-T. I have heard only one, maybe two, people on the entire internet realize that was the best way to negotiate pronouncing this username. Most try saying it like it’s one word rather than initials, which often boggles my mind.